Computers and Technology (2011/04)

The USB 3.0 Market Will Start In The Next Year

Published:2011/4/29 3:04:00 Author:Li xiao na

The transmission speed of USB 3.0 has reached 5Gbp/s, and the specification of PCI Express 3.0 has been released in November of last year. The main chip suppliers are able to improve the transmission speed to 8GB/s. In the beginning of new technologies’ promotion, the verification, validation and certification become the problems that concerned by many engineers. In order to provide some support to the Chinese ...   (View)

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LED: The Second Most Significant Development in Lighting Following the Invention of the Electric Light

Published:2011/4/28 22:43:00 Author:Phyllis

LED, to some extent, can be regarded as a second most significant development in lighting following the invention of the electric light. Light-emitting diode has been widely applied to various fields from business, industry, leisure industry to retail. The light output of LED will continue to increase in the coming years. In 2010, LED market scale have increased by 53 percent, reaching 8.2 billion dollars. ...   (View)

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The Mature Panel Industry Makes The Profit Of Manufacturers Low

Published:2011/4/28 1:07:00 Author:Li xiao na

The panel industry is becoming mature nowadays; therefore the manufacturers are facing the challenge of profit reduction. More technologies are needed by them, and the production needs to be strengthened. In the past ten years, the TFT-LCD panel industry is in the circle of boom and depression. The years between 2001 and 2006 were the high peak of the manufacturers. Their profit could reach ten percent to twenty pe...   (View)

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An Essential for Technology Development: Integrated Circuit

Published:2011/4/27 21:40:00 Author:Phyllis

The integrated circuit was first invented in the 1950s, and since then it has become an indispensable key to promote the development of technology. From the very beginning, integrated circuits have widely been used to modern society in every respect. Integrated circuits make great contributions to our common day activities and even world changing events. The technology is becoming more efficient thanks to integrate...   (View)

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Polycrystalline Silicon’s Supply And Demand Relation Becomes Moderate

Published:2011/4/27 2:05:00 Author:Li xiao na

The development of polycrystalline silicon industry has begun in the 1950s. The related products are mainly provided for the semiconductor market. Because the demand of semiconductor Market is low, the boom of this industry is benefited from the development of photovoltaic industry. Currently, more than eight-five percent of the polycrystalline silicon products are applied in this industry. Take the Hemlock for ins...   (View)

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MEMS Will Have New Opportunity

Published:2011/4/25 2:47:00 Author:Li xiao na

With the rapid development of automotive electronic, new digital consumer electronic and medical care electronic, the new demand of MEM?and the innovations based on MEMS emerge recently. The different kind of new applications and technologies will bring MEMS will have new opportunity to the MEMS sensor. MEMS was used in the automotive electronic industry at the earliest, which has been considered as the fi...   (View)

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Integration Of The Chip Is The Core In Smart Phone Market

Published:2011/4/22 1:23:00 Author:Li xiao na

Experts point out that the integration of chip will be the key of the smart phone’s differentiation on Linley Tech Mobile Conference in America. It is predicated that the shipment of smart phone will be 600 million sets in the year of 2014. Machine change trend in future will bring 600 million demand of the smart phone. The pressure of the manufacturers lies in how to reduce the cost. The integration of chip will b...   (View)

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The GPU War Will Spread To The Mobile Field

Published:2011/4/21 19:47:00 Author:Li xiao na

Currently, the main suppliers of the GPU have different views in the integration of GPU and CPU. AMD has returned to the performance and compatibility which can be provided by the x86, while Nvidia has integrated the low power ARM core in the GPU. No matter who will become the standard, the manufacturers all throw great stakes in this process. Nvidia maintains that the sales of mobile device will be ten tim...   (View)

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Smart System Will Replace PC In Processor’s Consumption

Published:2011/4/20 5:04:00 Author:Li xiao na

The report, which is made by IDC’s semiconductor research team, indicates the smart systems will consume more than 12.5 billion pills of processor cores before the year of 2015, and the sales will be more than 100 billion US dollars. The smart system is composed of the programmable processor core, high level operating system and the network connecting device, which has a great contribution to the processor market. ...   (View)

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LED Streetlights Has a Significant Impact on LED Industries

Published:2011/4/20 2:13:00 Author:LiuQiaoyan

Cross-strait development of LED streetlights is booming as Mainland China and Taiwan all initiated LED streetlight demonstration projects which spur the growth momentum of LED industry effectively. The progress is so obvious that in 2008 the luminous efficiency of LED lamps was 45 Lm/W and just one year later the number became 80 Lm/W, almost doubled. Whether the quality of the 80 Lm/W LED will pass the cri...   (View)

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MSP430 MCUs Launched by TI Providing the Lowest Power Capacitive

Published:2011/4/20 1:22:00 Author:Amy

The ultra-low-power MSP430 16-bit microcontroller capacitive touch portfolio has been released from Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI). It is claimed that MSP430 devices offered in this portfolio are the world’s lowest-power touch sense capabilities. It featured as easy-to-use for developers and having cost-effective options for microcontroller-based capacitive touch applications. It also has the advantage of batt...   (View)

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Android System Still Has So Many Problems

Published:2011/4/19 3:44:00 Author:Li xiao na

Recently, the Android is welcomed by people because of the smart phone. Not only some large manufacturers have released the high-end Android system, but also the low and middle manufacturers have the related chips to expand the market share. In the year of 2011, the symbian is unpromising, and the windowsPhone need to be improved; therefore, the Android becomes the only choice for the corporations who want to o...   (View)

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A Crucial and Integral Part of LED: LED Driver IC

Published:2011/4/19 2:39:00 Author:LiuQiaoyan

LED is getting more and more popularity today owing to its outstanding features like low energy consumption, high efficiency, long lifespan, environmental friendliness and durability. It’s no exaggeration that LED has become an indispensable in the backlighting areas. It even started to challenge the mainstream CCFL as in large-scaled LCD...   (View)

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Six Steps of Integrated Circuit Designing

Published:2011/4/18 2:31:00 Author:LiuQiaoyan

The design process of integrated circuit is so complex that it takes many years of study and practical experience to understand it. The build up of a digital integrated circuit, for example, can be divided into six different stages according to problems discovered at each level: design of system, logic, circuit, layout, fabrication and testing. These steps are not actually sequential and to get things work right, i...   (View)

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The Status Of The Computer Market

Published:2011/4/18 2:23:00 Author:Li xiao na

According to the report of Display Search Quarterly Mobile PC Shipment and Forecast, the dynamic energy in the movable computer market has reduced. It is predicated that the total shipment will be 277.7 million in the year of 2011, and the growth rate has reduced from thirty percent to twenty-seven percent. Although the growth of netbook and new emerging market is slow, the robust shipment of laptop computer and ta...   (View)

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The Supply Chain Of Silicon Wafer May Break Off In May

Published:2011/4/14 22:04:00 Author:Li xiao na

The earthquake in Japan has happened for more than one month. When the large factories are busy returning to the work, the aftershock, which is more than six levels, come suddenly. The electro restriction in summer is also an urgent problem. The supply of semiconductor’s material, such as silicon wafer, epitaxial wafer and GaAs, is still short. It is estimated that this situation will influence the production c...   (View)

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The Future Development Of The LED Power Supply

Published:2011/4/13 21:20:00 Author:Li xiao na

With the development of LED illumination industry, the LED power supply market is also expanding quickly. On one hand, the traditional manufacturers are releasing the related products; on the other hand, many new entrepreneurial firms are formed. The power supply market is not mature enough, and it does not have the related standard; therefore, the market is disorder. Experts maintain that some magnates will lead t...   (View)

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The Future Of Movable Terminal

Published:2011/4/12 22:38:00 Author:Li xiao na

How will the movable terminal develop in the future? Will more and more new products or the integrated device come out? In the short term, the direction has not been defined. Intel has made the embedded chip as the next market with one billion US dollars. Its president in China area has described the living and working style in the future. The personal computer will access different kinds of computing device with t...   (View)

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The Predication Of Software Market

Published:2011/4/11 4:48:00 Author:Li xiao na

According the newest predication of Gartner, the world’s smart phone operating systems will have the following situation: Android, which is developed by Google, will have fifty percent of the market share; the iOS, which is designed by Apple, will only take nineteen percent of the market share. Gartner has issued the newest report of smart phone in the last Thursday. The report indicates that the shipment of smart ...   (View)

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The Description Of Smart Antenna Front End

Published:2011/4/11 2:48:00 Author:Li xiao na

Smart Antenna Front End aims to implement the technical change, thus cheaper, smaller and more efficient movable antenna can be provided. The world’s leading Internet solution provider Molex pushes this project with the other research laboratories. 8.7 million US dollars will be invested on the project which lasts four years. It is consisted by Aalborg University, Intel Mobile Communications, WiSpy and Molex. The m...   (View)

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